Olivia Lee
Olivia Lee is a British comedian, actress and writer. She was born on 27 August 1980 in London, England, and grew up in a Jewish family. She studied acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Lee became a familiar face on British television. She worked as a presenter on Channel 4’s T4 with Simon Amstell and later appeared on the prank show Balls of Steel, where she interviewed celebrities with a humorous microphone. She then hosted her own Channel 4 show Naughty Bits and performed hidden-camera pranks on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
She appeared on The Basil Brush Show in 2004 and did a photoshoot for FHM in 2006. In 2009 she guest-starred on Tom Green’s House Tonight. Her show Dirty Sexy Funny began on Channel 4 and later aired on Comedy Central UK for two seasons. She also hosted the Fox Reality Channel game show Battle of the Bods, based on Hot Tub Ranking.
In 2012, Lee joined Balls of Steel Australia for its second series, performing as “Prank TV Oz.” She later wrote and performed material for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, which led to a comedy pilot, The Olivia Lee Show, produced by Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Productions for TruTV. Sky News once called her “the queen of prank TV.”
Personal life: Olivia Lee is married to Dan Renton Skinner, and they have a child. They met on a celebrity edition of Come Dine with Me.
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